Christopher,
No. My home network is really simple. 1 server, 4/6 XP clients, 2 GBit
switches, 1 NAS, 1 Router, 1 xDSL modem. I have never promoted my server
to domain controller status. Been told my home network is not complex
enough to justify this.
I will check out both of your links. Most of my MS research indicates that
any "TimeServer" like tool/app I choose to run on my server requires me to
enable services I just do not want/need to run ATM. I just do not have
enough background yet. As I said, this year's project!
What I'd like to have is some tool/app run on the server that sets LAN time
via NIST.gov (or whomever). Then I'd like my LAN clients to set their time
from my server; not some external source. If I could figure out how to just
point all LAN machines to time check with my router, that would be another
workable solution also; my router gets its' time from NIST.
Thanks,
Duncan
At 16:06 01/22/2009 -0500, Christopher wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, DHSinclair wrote:
Bryan,
Agree completely about AR9, but it is huge and has many nag msgs. I can
hang with it because it does work very nicely. I think some more now
about "AIR." I do depend on the Sun Java JRE business; it is the only way
I can view the NIST sites for proper time. I am still playing with
various "time server" apps I can run on my server to automate LAN
time. I have 2 machines that just can not keep time worth a damn!
LOL! I'll figure this out this year!
Thanks,
Duncan
You use Active Directoy domains on your home network?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042
Check out the steps for "Configuring the Windows Time service to use an
external time source".
I generally setup the time server to use clock.psu.edu, which is a
reliable strata 2 time source.
If you don't have an Active Directory domain, you can just setup Windows
XP to use clock.psu.edu directly:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054/
Christopher Fisk
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